How to Install a French Drain w/Minimal Damage to Lawn/Yard We installed the French drain and I just wanted to show you what it looks like when we're done. This is a finished product. How do you achieve that? How do you put in a French drain and have your yard look this good? Well, [...]
When to Use a Trencher to Install a French Drain When you look at the amount of equipment we take to install one of our systems, it's asking a lot of a DIY to install a system exactly the way we do and I know that. I mean look at all those trucks and trailers [...]
Yard Drainage System and the #1 Reason for FAILURE Welcome to the French Drain Man YouTube channel. I just wanted to focus on one thing in this video. One-third of the yard drainage projects that we are contracted to do, we're actually replacing somebody else's failed drainage system. I wanted to go over the number [...]
We are yard drainage contractors installing a French drain in North Oakland County, Michigan. We're taking that French drain to this storm drain catch basin. We'll dig down 18 inches and we'll core through 12 inches of concrete where we'll do a nice clean tap and use hydraulic concrete. We will put in PVC schedule [...]
Complete Yard Drainage System, Yard Drainage Contractors, French Drain We're working on a project right now. The neighbors went in together on the side of the homes, on both sides of this home. The neighbors split. You can see that we have the drain in. We still have to pin the fabric and put the [...]
What Yard Water Drainage Contractors are Doing Wrong - The Do's and Don'ts What are the mistakes that I see your drainage contractors making? I'd say the number one mistake that I see, they don't put enough stone in their drainage systems. It doesn't matter what they're building for a drainage system. If it's a [...]
The Key to a Great French Drain - Yard Drainage and a Dry Well To build a French drain to last, you have to remove a lot of dirt. You're going to have to use a backhoe or an excavator or be willing to do a lot of hand digging, that's for sure. One thing that [...]
Why You Should Hire a Yard Drainage Professional for Yard Water Problems Why is it so important that when you hire somebody to take care of yard water problems, you hire a professional? Let's go over a few things real quick. One-third of the installs that we put in is to replace a failed drainage [...]
Why You DO NOT Use a Trencher to Build a French Drain French drain contractors have to work a lot of times in the dark, so I'm sorry that the quality of this video might not be the greatest, but I just want to show you how much dirt has to come out to build [...]
Commercial Underground Drainage System - Macomb and Oakland County, MI The gentleman in the trench is taking readings with the story pole. He's working with the laser transit to maintain a one eighth inch drop for every linear foot of trench. You can see how we piled the dirt on plywood for easy cleanup. There [...]
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